Historic Hotels of Los Angeles and Hollywood

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This volume presents a pictorial history of Los Angeles hotels downtown, in Hollywood, and along the Wilshire Boulevard corridor from the late 19th through the mid-20th centuries. By the early 1900s, many hotels, including luxury ones, had been established in downtown Los Angeles to cater to business travelers and tourists. In the late 19th century, after the arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad, hotels were built to encourage tourism and sell real estate in the agricultural Hollywood area. And with the growth of the motion picture studios in the early decades of the 20th century, grander hotels were erected to accommodate the new industry. As the city expanded westward, luxury and residential hotels were also placed in the Westlake District and along the fashionable Wilshire Boulevard corridor connecting to Beverly Hills.The majority of images in this hook were made available courtesy of the
University of Southern California on behalf of the USC Libraries Special
Collections. We drew mainly upon photographic archives held at the USC
Regional Historyanbsp;...

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Historic Hotels of Los Angeles and Hollywood

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Linda McCann, Dace Taube, Claude Zachary, Curtis C. Roseman

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Arcadia Publishing - 2008

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